9. The Participation of New Christians and Crypto-Jews in the Conquest, Colonization, and Trade of Spanish America, 1521–1660

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Preface xi
5. Maps xvi
6. A Milder Colonization: Jewish Expansion to the New World, and the New World in the Jewish Consciousness of the Early Modern Era 1
7. I. The Old Newworld: Ideas and Representations of America in European and Jewish Consciousness and Intellectual History
8. 1. Biblical History and the Americas: The Legend of Solomon’s Ophir, 1492–1591 25
9. 2. Knowledge of Newly Discovered Lands among Jewish Communities of Europe (from 1492 to the Thirty Years’ War) 47
10. 3. Jewish Scientists and the Origin of Modern Navigation 73
11. 4. The Hope of the Netherlands: Menasseh ben Israel and the Dutch Idea of America 86
12. 5. Israel in America: The Wanderings of the Lost Ten Tribes from Mikveigh Yisrael to Timothy McVeigh 107
13. II. Identity at Stake: Concealing, Preserving, and Reshaping Judaism Among the Conversos and Marranos of Spanish America
14. 6. New Christian, Marrano, Jew 123
15. 7. Marrano Religiosity in Hispanic America in the Seventeenth Century 149
16. 8. Crypto-Jews and the Mexican Holy Office in the Seventeenth Century 172
17. 9. The Participation of New Christians and Crypto-Jews in the Conquest, Colonization, and Trade of Spanish America, 1521–1660 186
18. 10. Crypto-Jews and New Christians in Colonial Peru and Chile 203
19. III. The Luso-Brazilian Experience: Jews In Portuguese Latin America
20. 11. Marranos and the Inquisition: On the Gold Route in Minas Gerais, Brazil 213
21. 12. Outcasts from the Kingdom: The Inquisition and the Banishment of New Christians to Brazil 242
22. IV. From Toleration to Expulsion: Identity,Trade, and Struggle for Survival in France and Caribbean French America
23. 13. The Portuguese Jewish Nation of Saint-Esprit-lès-Bayonne: The American Dimension 253
24. 14. Atlantic Trade and Sephardim Merchants in Eighteenth-Century France: The Case of Bordeaux 268
25. 15. Jewish Settlements in the French Colonies in the Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Cayenne) and the “Black Code” 287
26. 16. New Christians/”New Whites”: Sephardic Jews, Free People of Color, and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue, 1760–1789 314
27. V. Blossoming in Anotherworld: The Jews and the Jewish Communities in Dutch America
28. 17. The Jews of Dutch America 333
29. 18. The Jews in Suriname and Curaçao 350
30. 19. An Atlantic Perspective on the Jewish Struggle for Rights and Opportunities in Brazil, New Netherland, and New York 369
31. 20. Antecedents and Remnants of Jodensavanne: The Synagogues and Cemeteries of the First Permanent Plantation Settlement of New World Jews 394
32. VI. “The Brokers of Theworld”: American Jews, New Christians, and International Trade
33. 21. Jews and New Christians in the Atlantic Slave Trade 437
34. 22. New Christians and Jews in the Sugar Trade, 1550–1750: Two Centuries of Development of the Atlantic Economy 471
35. 23. New Christians as Sugar Cultivators and Traders in the Portuguese Atlantic, 1450–1800 485
36. 24. The Jewish Moment and the Two Expansion Systems in the Atlantic, 1580–1650 501
37. VII. The Jews In Colonial British America
38. 25. The Jews in British America 517
39. Notes on Contributors 532
40. Name Index 537
41. Place Index 554
42. Subject Index 561